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When i said faster then light travel, i mean more a long the lines of warp drive or inter-dimensional travel such as hyper space.
Warp drive doesn't let a starship break the speed of light, more like bend it as it creates a spacial wave. The spacial wave would travel faster then light but the starship in it would be traveling a sublight speeds. But to engage a warp drive, you would need more energy then the sun gives out in a year, can Zero Point energy provide that amount of power.
Also, Fusion reactors, Tocomacs (spelling) do exist today but they require more power then they give out to sustain them, so it isn't very efficient. But Nuclear fussion is something that countries and scientists can share with each other, and there is a lot of sharing of information going on, because it can't be used to create any sort of weapon system.
Oh, and i hope you don't mind me adding you Clarkey, i added you after the "if i don't know you, your blocked" warning :bonce:.
Warp drive doesn't let a starship break the speed of light, more like bend it as it creates a spacial wave. The spacial wave would travel faster then light but the starship in it would be traveling a sublight speeds. But to engage a warp drive, you would need more energy then the sun gives out in a year, can Zero Point energy provide that amount of power.
Also, Fusion reactors, Tocomacs (spelling) do exist today but they require more power then they give out to sustain them, so it isn't very efficient. But Nuclear fussion is something that countries and scientists can share with each other, and there is a lot of sharing of information going on, because it can't be used to create any sort of weapon system.
Oh, and i hope you don't mind me adding you Clarkey, i added you after the "if i don't know you, your blocked" warning :bonce:.
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sorry Razor, if you delete me and add me again,, that should work. but im not on Messenger very often, so its up to you.
and in many books (by that I mean a couple
) that have been written on John searls 12 foot device, the power out put was said to reach 10 to the power of 10 volts. which is enough to power the planet for 50 years with about just one days worth of use. :O
and in many books (by that I mean a couple
) that have been written on John searls 12 foot device, the power out put was said to reach 10 to the power of 10 volts. which is enough to power the planet for 50 years with about just one days worth of use. :O
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Well, it is amazing what sort of things are going on behind closed doors. All of the technology in Star Trek has either been theorised to be possible or is being built and worked on as we speak, there are working transporters, anti gravity engines, etc.
We just have to wait and see what happens over the next few years or so, hopefully it'll be good news and not the news of more scientists being threatened or murdered.
But until a government or a corporation can turn round and give them the money and resourses they require, it'll be many years before things are worked out.
We just have to wait and see what happens over the next few years or so, hopefully it'll be good news and not the news of more scientists being threatened or murdered.
But until a government or a corporation can turn round and give them the money and resourses they require, it'll be many years before things are worked out.
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I'd imagine that the key to FTL travel would be to find a way to bypass the limiting factor... sort of a "loophole" in the natural laws...
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Brian Damage said:
but the limit would only have strange visual effects. as we measure by light. if a bat who uses infra sound was flung faster than the speed of sound, we would still beable to see him in time,, although to him he would be very confused. but its evident hes not going back in time to us. he might perceive it that way. Its exactley the same with us.
Just because our vision would impede us of perceiving things normally at and beyond the speed of light does infact rule out the fact that you cant go at and past the speed of light in a normal conventionally propelled craft, although it wouldnt be very controlled as it would take ages to slow down and speed up.
but essentially, light has nothing to do with time like sound doesnt, only to us as humans does it appear that it does. like alot of illusions in life this is one that can fool the wisest of people
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